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| Well, now that we on the Movement Charter Drafting Committee have published the final text of the proposed ] (ratification vote coming up soon!), I can finally get back to the work I've been missing so much here on this project. I figured I should look at backlogs, and first off I'm going to work on clearing the IPBE requests; that will take a while, as it isn't top priority for most checkusers. Then there's SPI and other CU requests, as well as getting back into OS requests. Feel free to ping me if I can be of assistance. ] (]) 02:43, 12 June 2024 (UTC) | |||
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| You have blocked my IP address, so I can't edit. Although I may have made mistakes in the past, I have familiarized myself with all Misplaced Pages policies. Please reconsider and unblock my IP address. | |||
| Hi Risker, I know you answered this on the OS talk page a while back, but it's been brought up to some extent on ] in regards to primary sourcing. What is our procedure on birth dates for non-minors that are not sourced or are only sourced to primary sources? I don't think I've ever gotten a consistent answer between oversighters on this question, so your thoughts would be appreciated. ] (]) 01:59, 9 January 2018 (UTC) | |||
| :Hi {{u|TonyBallioni|Tony}}, I took a bit of a look and I'm not quite sure what the context is in that thread. Is the discussion about a particular editor looking to have self-posted DOB removed, or is it about an article subject wanting to have a DOB removed? A lot of our article subjects probably shouldn't have DOB posted (e.g., academics, minor actors, and so on) simply because of the significant potential for misuse of that information. And adding DOBs of children/spouses of article subjects is really not good; minors in particular have a right to privacy. Let me know. ] (]) 04:41, 9 January 2018 (UTC) | |||
| ::I'm not particularly sure the context of that thread myself either: the editor who raised it seems brought it up in the question of using primary sourcing to verify the date of birth, which in my view, is a no go.{{pb}}I mainly reached out because I didn't know whether such information would be subject to revdel or suppression, and how to communicate that on the thread: I've been given what appears to be contradictory answers from oversighters on the suppression of DOBs for adults: ] seems to suggest that any DOB that isn't reliably sourced should be suppressed, regardless of age, while other oversighters will decline to suppress the completely unsourced DOB of 10 year-old actors. Basically, the question of how we handle DOBs and what sourcing is necessary does come up a fair amount, and right now the answer seems to be that the policy on sourcing changes depending on the oversighter you talk to. ] (]) 04:57, 9 January 2018 (UTC) | |||
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| I saw that you granted IPBE to this editor. As the first thing they did was cryptospamming (]), I am inclined to revoke that, but wanted to ask your opinion before doing so. ] <small><sup>]</sup></small> 07:08, 3 September 2024 (UTC) | |||
| :Hi there {{u|Calliopejen1}}, sorry for the delay in responding as I wasn't around very much due to some family matters. I've sent you an email, and I think you did a good job with that situation. ] (]) 03:18, 9 March 2018 (UTC) | |||
| :Thanks for letting me know, {{u|Seraphimblade}}. I've revoked the IPBE; while the account met the criteria for the initial grant, this is exactly why it is meant to be easy to revoke. I've been clearing the backlog of IPBE requests (there were over 100, I've lost count....), I'm hoping this will be the only one that messes up so obviously. ] (]) 16:08, 3 September 2024 (UTC) | |||
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| Is it generally acceptable for admins to grant IPBE to new editors who are in a geography (or on an ISP) where they'd need IPBE to edit? Was looking at ] and it isn't exactly clear (the request I was reviewing was at ]). ] (] | ]) 17:54, 13 September 2024 (UTC) | |||
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| :Hi {{u|Elli}}. Reasonable question. This would probably fall into the "use common sense" category, more so than anything. I deliberately didn't include the "geographies" issue for a few reasons: listing "concerning" geographies is a mug's game since they keep changing and expanding, and it's a potential vector for abuse (and yes, we've seen some inappropriate requests involving these "concerning" geographies). Gonna be honest, by the time an admin starts feeling comfortable in granting any additional permissions to people, they've usually developed a feel for situations where they don't really want to go. We've got a lot of really good and smart admins. | |||
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| Hey Risker! I'm writing to ask about a deletion you made yesterday of the page "Move Music Festival." I'm relatively new here, and still making clumsy contributions - I had accidentally published the page to article space right off the bat instead of draft space, so it was tagged (rightly so) for speedy deletion as an empty article. I quickly moved it to draft space, and the speedy deletion tag was removed by another user. Then you deleted the original article space page under R2: cross-namespace redirect. I've since fleshed out the article in draft space and then transferred it back to article space, but under Google search results for "Move Music Festival Wiki," it returns the following text instead of a link preview: | |||
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| Is there any way to alter that now that the article is pointing back out of draft space into article space? Some sort of page history edit? I wanted to ask because I've got no clue. | |||
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| :Hello, {{u|Happilycleverafter}} and welcome to Misplaced Pages. It looks like this got straightened out without my personal attention (whether because it was just a glitch or a talk page watcher intervened). I will note in passing, however, that I don't think the subject is very notable; you have included only one or two independent sources, and very few of the performers are notable enough for their own articles. This looks pretty local. I won't personally tag it for review, but don't be surprised if it winds up in some form of deletion discussion because of its questionable ]. ] (]) 04:00, 22 April 2018 (UTC) | |||
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| This is not intended in any way as canvassing, but as the person who spearheaded the Orangemoody research, you may wish to add a comment. It was a particularly nasty issue. My other personal thought is that it is high time the 3 month data access for CU (the default period issued with MediaWiki software), be significantly extended. This would require a policy change to CU which I'm not sure could be carried locally by en.WP. ] (]) 01:55, 11 July 2018 (UTC) | |||
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| :Hello {{u|Kudpung}}! First, let me thank you for giving me reason to review one of the more positive episodes in my wiki-life: not that anyone had any fun dealing with that socking case, but as its lead, I felt it was possibly my most ''useful'' contribution to the project. I certainly learned a lot from it. One of the things I learned is how incredibly labour-intensive those kinds of investigations wind up being. Given the contributions of several checkusers, as well as the functionary discussions that occurred prior to the actual publication of the report to the commmunity, the interfaces with the WMF, the arrangements for the blocking bot, etc., there was an investment of more than an hour per blocked sock. I'm not sure I'd do it the same way again, although I am glad that we established a precedent for deleting "paid" articles without prejudice to appropriate re-creation that seems to be generally followed today. | |||
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| :I'm not going to comment on that particular AfD because what I see when I read this article is a very high-achieving and extremely focused high school student whose wonderfully supportive family is in a financial position to put her in good stead to reach her future goals. So far, however, she's really not accomplished anything noteworthy, in my opinion. (Example: There are no admission criteria for any of the Space Camps she attended, nor for participation in the NASA "explore space" passport program. But traveling to all the NASA centres over the course of less than a year is a pretty expensive endeavour, as is attendance at international camps.) I'm going to be honest and say that I would not have undeleted the article at the request of the subject's family member, even to put it into draft status; I'm hardly the strongest advocate of our COI guidelines, but even I think the COI is blatant in this situation. Having said that, the AfD by someone so new is....suspicious, shall we say. (It's not likely to be related to Manc1234 directly, although with Orangemoody we've always believed it was more than one person in more than one geographic area.) | |||
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| :To your larger question, about whether having a more expansive period for CU data access...well, that cuts both ways. Three months is usually long enough for about 95% of CU cases; many of the cases I've seen with "stale" contributions haven't edited in more than 6 months. The WMF privacy policy is board-approved, and takes into consideration such things as international standards (e.g., the EU privacy laws), the high value the broad community places on privacy, the usefulness of the data retained, and the risks that outside players such as law enforcement or courts may seek such data. I think three months is about right. CUs do have a private wiki that allows us to retain a little more data in cases involving repeat bad actors, and we have a few other tricks of the trade. One of the things I've noticed is the ever-increasing use of VPNs by users of all stripes (I confess to using one for all my mobile devices), as well as the massive increase in the use of (normally extremely dynamic) cellphone/mobile IPs. That often means having to sort out "good" editors from bad. More people are also becoming familiar with certain browser technology and flexibility is also changing - more than one commonly used browser allows users to "customize" the user agent. (I remember one sockmaster who used to change his UA to rude messages for the checkusers, but most changes are to make the UA really generic.) | |||
| I just noticed that you goldlocked the article "]". Why? Is it just that much of a contentious topic? Just curious. ] (]) 08:05, 6 November 2024 (UTC) | |||
| :It is indeed a ], and was also having an ongoing edit war. ] (]) 08:06, 6 November 2024 (UTC) | |||
| ::Ah. ] (]) 08:06, 6 November 2024 (UTC) | |||
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| ::Thank you so much for responding at length. If there is any COI it is me and {{U|KrakatoaKatie}}. We based a new version on the original article by Manc1234 which he created with the sole purpose of extortion. In the beginning, the parents were naturally overjoyed to see a Misplaced Pages article about their daughter, and you can imagine thier distress at seeing it defaced with disgusting claims shortly afterwards. The next step in Manc's ploy was to 'offer' to remove the vandalism for a fee. The parent's were now extremely distressed. At Misplaced Pages, we claim (or the WMF claims) to uphold common decency and to protect the rights and reputations of its article subjects and editors. The article was more or less notable (it does have some good claims to notability and is well referenced) and as a gesture and in a case where in our opinion IAR is what it's for, we recreated the article without according any credit to the miscreant, and reposted it to mainspace. There are literally thousands of other BLP that are not in the slightest bit worthy of a Misplaced Pages article, the problem is the sheer number and controlling and deleting them all. | |||
| Good evening brother. Just wanted to ask why cant one post a topic on the talk page? | |||
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| And also I basically just wanted to ask what the hold up is with updating the article? | |||
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| Trump was declared the projected winner for 4 hours and the article still shows him as 266. Which is outdated information. | |||
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| Maybe I'm being overly cynical, but I have a feeling "misconduct is whatever we say it is regardless of any evidence of actual misconduct" is {{em|exactly}} the precedent they hope to set; you know as well as I do that right back to 2004 there's been a faction who see the committee not so much as a dispute-resolution body, but as a tool for implementing a purge of those its members consider insufficiently True Believers. There's a certain degree of irony in the fact that the committee is trying, with an apparently straight face, to redefine "adding a reliable source to an unreferenced contentious statement regarding a living person" as something undesirable. ‑ ] 21:01, 4 December 2018 (UTC) | |||
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| ::Have been vaguely following this, and it is mildly surprising the way things are going, but maybe it shouldn't be that surprising. I also noticed (not really related, but seems pertinent in some 'times change' sort of way), which rang very true. ] (]) 00:53, 6 December 2018 (UTC) <small>PS. Was Fred really still on the functionaries list? I am still so grateful I didn't stay subscribed to that list! :-) ] (]) 00:54, 6 December 2018 (UTC)</small> | |||
| :::Yeah, I'm feeling increasingly uncomfortable about some of this. On the other hand, after almost two weeks of working on the investigation of compromised accounts, I'm also finding myself feeling increasingly hardline on the issue of administrators maintaining basic security of their privileged accounts. I'm trying to find the sweet spot here as I prepare something that can go out to all administrators, but it's hard to keep that "the community is pissed off" tone out of my writing voice. (That's actually why I haven't moved it forward yet.) Oh, and Fred had unsubscribed from the functionaries mailing list way back in 2015. Both you and Iri technically have the right to ask for reinstatement as former arbitrators....but neither of you probably want to bother. Most of the time, it's pretty dull. ] (]) 07:17, 6 December 2018 (UTC) | |||
| ::::I've swung 180° in the past year or so, from a believer in "no big deal" and the democratisation of the project, to a hardline "remove all tools from people who aren't active and have periodic reconfirmations for those who are". The number of problems being caused by legacy admins re-emerging and trying to enforce the standards of a decade ago, by current admins (and other functionaries) who see themselves as untouchable super-users with a mission to purify the wiki, by admins (and at least one arb) who openly abuse the toolset to further their personal hobby-horses or vendettas, and by legacy admins who have no incentive to keep their accounts secure, is getting too high for us to continue pretending it's just a case of a couple of bad apples. ‑ ] 09:00, 6 December 2018 (UTC) | |||
| :::::Interesting, Iridescent. I'm not a big fan of reconfirmations, although I may yet come around. Gonna be honest, I have always thought that admins like me, who have spent a lot of years in the difficult areas of the project, are particularly susceptible to gaming by one or more of the various factions, so perhaps there's some self-interest in my hesitation; willingness to deal with "drama" has always had negative connotations, as showed up even in my RFA oh so many years ago. I could foresee that admins who work at arbitration enforcement or have a talent for cutting the gordian knots on ANI would be targeted. When I compare enwiki to some of the other wikipedias where I know multiple users, and where they have reconfirmation processes, even their RFA processes seem to operate much more on good faith and much less on the "popularity contest" process; their core culture is really, really different from ours. And I also know full well that there are a couple of projects where a strong faction has really skewed the admin corps to the point that it would be politically suicidal for anyone to oppose a "properly aligned" candidate at RFA or reconfirmation - compared to some projects, we're a lot more tolerant of that kind of dissent. Maybe the best way to summarize it is by using ]. I see Xeno has just mentioned me in a similar vein... ] (]) 19:33, 6 December 2018 (UTC) | |||
| ::::::There would be ways to run an automatic reconfirmation process that wouldn't involve either crapflooding RFA, or a parade of everyone who's ever taken a grudge lining up to take shots. Off the top of my head: | |||
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| ::::::#If at least five such examples are provided, a new Request for Reconfirmation will be opened with a straightforward 50% pass/fail mark; if this number of examples is not provided or you achieve 50%+1 support in the Request for Reconfirmation , you will be considered as reconfirmed for the next five years. | |||
| ::::::This is basically the ] model, of a phase 1 where editors are expected to provide evidence that an article is potentially problematic and only if they can show the goods does it move on to the phase 2 of community discussion to decide whether the issues raised are actually worth addressing and if so what should be done about them. It would be a lot harder for disgruntled people with whom someone has been in dispute to game, as the requirement to provide diffs before the Request for Reconfirmation opened would mean we only ever reached that stage if someone could actually demonstrate legitimate grounds for concern; there would be no automatic desysoppings as everyone would at minimum have the chance to persuade people to support them at the 50-50 vote stage; it would strongly incentivise admins to remain engaged with the community; it would (hopefully) negate the "oppose, adminship is for life so I insist on insanely high standards just in case" tendency at RFA; the solid stream over the next 12 months as the backlog of people who passed RFA pre-2013 are reconfirmed—most of whom would presumably sail through—would hopefully illustrate to potential admin candidates that provided you have no glaring skeletons in the closet, community votes are nothing to be afraid of, and the "RFA is a hellish ordeal" meme would finally be laid to rest. Yes, the Request for Reconfirmation stage could theoretically be gamed by accumulated enemies turning up, but frankly if over half the people commenting vote 'no confidence' {{em|and}} they've either managed to find and demonstrate evidence of misuse of the tools or it's clear that the subject is largely inactive, that person probably {{em|has}} lost the trust of the community. ‑ ] 20:18, 6 December 2018 (UTC) | |||
| :::::::I presume that there will be sanctions for complainers that don't pony up the requisite evidence or misrepresent it? And that there will be no ill effects from a "here's everything someone somewhere thought was wrong with you" list which is what {{tq|editors are invited to provide evidence of administrative actions you have taken in the past year that explicitly violate Misplaced Pages policy or which any reasonable observer would conclude violated a clear consensus}} and the others will invariably lead to in light of experience with ANI, RfC/U, ARB/Evidence pages turning into exactly that. ] (], ]) 20:48, 6 December 2018 (UTC) | |||
| :::::::Also, sometimes I think there are people who believe that putting up with a lot of complaints of varying merit is part of an admin's obligations. I don't think that this idea has ever gained enough consensus to construct a process out of it. ] (], ]) 20:48, 6 December 2018 (UTC) | |||
| ::::::::Hence, {{tq|'''provide evidence''' of administrative actions you have taken in the past year that explicitly violate Misplaced Pages policy or which any reasonable observer would conclude violated a clear consensus}}, not just "you did something I didn't like"; to trigger reconfirmation someone would need to demonstrate - not just allege - multiple incidences of the admin in question recently disregarding consensus. It would probably need tweaking to leave out things which technically violate policy but which no sane person would consider problematic ( technically violated ] but anyone who tried to raise a complaint based on it would be laughed out). You can't seriously dispute that (1) we have some admins who are lacking in competence or who use the tools to further their personal grudges or pet causes, (2) unless they do something so egregious it ends up at arbcom, there's absolutely nothing anyone can do about it, and (3) the combination of 1 & 2 is causing problems both with self-appointed cops causing disruption, and with people opposing qualified candidates at RFA because they're not familiar enough with them to be certain they're up to the job and there's no way to remove them if they're not. ‑ ] 21:00, 6 December 2018 (UTC) | |||
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| :Oh RevelationDirect, just the other day I was accused of kicking dogs. I do not find anything you said to be particularly rude at all. Bottom line, though, I am really impressed that you hold yourself to such a high standard. It's a challenging discussion, for sure, but I think the focus has been on improvement and re-humanizing the process. ] (]) 16:43, 23 November 2024 (UTC) | |||
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| *Thanks so much, {{u|Gerda Arendt|Gerda}}. I seem to recall this was granted following my first election to the Arbitration Committee. It's hard to believe it's been that long, or for that matter that both of us have stuck it out that long! ] (]) 18:57, 18 December 2018 (UTC) | |||
| Hi, I haven't edited for almost 2 years, but I've been lurking (just a bit). I came across RECALL and its REWORKSHOP more by accident than design and I was so pleased to see you being active there. It certainly needs your special touch. It inspired me to throw in just two or three minor comments, and though I'm certainly not staging a comeback, I still have a vested interest in both encouraging potential admin candidates to throw their hat in the ring without fear, and even more important to ensure they get a ''fair deal'' when they get the bit - or lose it. Warm rgds, ] (]) 07:58, 24 November 2024 (UTC) | |||
| :: My pleasure. I barely knew what Misplaced Pages was back then, but carry some legacy. I didn't know what arbcom was until 3 years into my career here when the one who called you awesome said he was an arb once, and I wasn't impressed because I had no idea ;) - I survived my encounter with arbitration, happy it was over three years ago. I should have known ], - long live his memory. --] (]) 19:45, 18 December 2018 (UTC) | |||
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| Thanks very much, {{u|Davey2010}}. I'm hoping that we all make it through Christmas without any nasty viruses. And I'm certain that 2019 is going to have to be better than 2018 was; I cannot tell you how happy I am that this year is almost over. ] (]) 07:00, 24 December 2018 (UTC) | |||
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| *{{u|Casliber}} - that looks so delicious, what a great way to start off the new year, by totally ignoring any dieting resolutions - not that either of us need such a thing. I admit given the weird mix of weather we've been having here, I'm a tiny bit envious of your antipodean sunshine. Hope you and yours have a great 2019, and perhaps our paths will cross in person over the course of the year. ] (]) 22:35, 5 January 2019 (UTC) | |||
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| Thanks for protecting it. I did wonder about doing that myself but it doesn't usually get that sort of vandalism so I had left it for the time being. Hopefully there won't be any more like that, if there is then I'll extend it to extended confirmed protection. The trouble is, he's the sort of person that's always going to attract vandalism. | |||
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| :Perhaps the advantage of not really knowing much about this guy allows me to take the 30,000-foot view. That kind of nonsense isn't okay, regardless of how much of a jerk an article subject may be - and refer back to sentence 1, I really don't know. ] (]) 22:40, 5 January 2019 (UTC) | |||
| ::It's not even that he's a jerk, it's because he's a talk show host with a past that includes things like a gambling problem. So now because he has a go at people on his talk show who have problems like gambling etc, people think he's a bit of a hypocrite and the guy really isn't that well liked, well not in the UK anyway.-- ] (]) 23:04, 5 January 2019 (UTC) | |||
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I'm around a lot more now!
Well, now that we on the Movement Charter Drafting Committee have published the final text of the proposed movement charter (ratification vote coming up soon!), I can finally get back to the work I've been missing so much here on this project. I figured I should look at backlogs, and first off I'm going to work on clearing the IPBE requests; that will take a while, as it isn't top priority for most checkusers. Then there's SPI and other CU requests, as well as getting back into OS requests. Feel free to ping me if I can be of assistance. Risker (talk) 02:43, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
Notification
I reference the questions you asked at WT:RFA in this case clarification request. I figured this crosses the threshold of when it's a good idea to give someone a courtesy notification. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 03:45, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
IP address blocked
@Risker
You have blocked my IP address, so I can't edit. Although I may have made mistakes in the past, I have familiarized myself with all Misplaced Pages policies. Please reconsider and unblock my IP address.
ᱤᱧ ᱢᱟᱛᱟᱞ (talk) 14:49, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- You seem to be editing pretty well, at least when you're logged in. I haven't done many IP blocks in the last year, and most of the time I am making them more accessible (e.g., allowing logged-in editors to edit instead of blocking all editors). I really don't want to have to use the CheckUser tool to find out what IP address or range you are using, since you are able to edit logged-in. If you are encountering difficulty logging in or editing while logged in, that's a bit of a different story. If that is the case, the best step would be to email the address listed on WP:IPBE so that it can be further reviewed by the CheckUser team. Risker (talk) 17:36, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
IPBE for User:Lynnzh0913
I saw that you granted IPBE to this editor. As the first thing they did was cryptospamming (Draft:Aibit exchange), I am inclined to revoke that, but wanted to ask your opinion before doing so. Seraphimblade 07:08, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for letting me know, Seraphimblade. I've revoked the IPBE; while the account met the criteria for the initial grant, this is exactly why it is meant to be easy to revoke. I've been clearing the backlog of IPBE requests (there were over 100, I've lost count....), I'm hoping this will be the only one that messes up so obviously. Risker (talk) 16:08, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
IPBE question
Is it generally acceptable for admins to grant IPBE to new editors who are in a geography (or on an ISP) where they'd need IPBE to edit? Was looking at User:Risker/IPBE and it isn't exactly clear (the request I was reviewing was at User talk:Caralice). Elli (talk | contribs) 17:54, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Elli. Reasonable question. This would probably fall into the "use common sense" category, more so than anything. I deliberately didn't include the "geographies" issue for a few reasons: listing "concerning" geographies is a mug's game since they keep changing and expanding, and it's a potential vector for abuse (and yes, we've seen some inappropriate requests involving these "concerning" geographies). Gonna be honest, by the time an admin starts feeling comfortable in granting any additional permissions to people, they've usually developed a feel for situations where they don't really want to go. We've got a lot of really good and smart admins.
- I think there are also a few issues that need further discussion. Should we be range-blocking IPs that have no history of abuse, simply because they're a VPN or similar? With an increasing number of people and devices only operating effectively through VPNs and similar colocation vectors, should we become more liberal in our granting? How can we deal effectively with the IPBE-related issues that stem from deeply rooted systemic biases that exist outside of our small slice of the internet? Should we request that the developers separate Tor access from IPBE, which would reduce the risk of inappropriate behaviour? There are a lot of things we could be doing better to reduce the need for, and the risk of, granting IPBE. It becomes increasingly difficult to say to people "we want to see a reasonable editing history" when the reality is that they can't even gain access. Risker (talk) 18:19, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
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Protecting 2024 United States presidential election
I just noticed that you goldlocked the article "2024 United States presidential election". Why? Is it just that much of a contentious topic? Just curious. RedactedHumanoid (talk) 08:05, 6 November 2024 (UTC)
- It is indeed a contentious topic, and was also having an ongoing edit war. Risker (talk) 08:06, 6 November 2024 (UTC)
Talk Page of 2024 United States Presidential Election is also locked (not only the article, which for the article is understandable)
Good evening brother. Just wanted to ask why cant one post a topic on the talk page?
And also I basically just wanted to ask what the hold up is with updating the article?
Trump was declared the projected winner for 4 hours and the article still shows him as 266. Which is outdated information.
Sources:
https://www.foxnews.com/elections
https://elections2024.thehill.com/
https://abcnews.go.com/Elections/2024-us-presidential-election-results-live-map 2806:2F0:1080:F8C0:9901:73EA:1D3F:3883 (talk) 10:33, 6 November 2024 (UTC)
- Not touching the protection on that talk page; if you really want to pursue it, you can post at WP:RFPP. The full protection of the article has been lifted now that the predetermined 5 mainstream media outlets have unanimously called the election for Trump. You will see much work done there in the coming hours. Risker (talk) 10:48, 6 November 2024 (UTC)
A Barnstar for you!
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The Donald Trump Barnstar |
| For your work bringing cohesiveness and order to 2024 United States presidential election during AP's, CNN's, ABC's, CBS's and NBC's reporting last night; for making sure orderly process and structure were facilitated on Talk:2024 United States presidential election. Admins like you are the best! BarntToust 13:35, 6 November 2024 (UTC) |
Thank you, BarntToust. I think. I'm still half asleep. :) Risker (talk) 15:57, 6 November 2024 (UTC)
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Hey Risker! Thank you for actioning that request. For future reference, what is the correct way to request RevDel without using the Oversight process? The suggestion of 'Find active admins in Category:Wikipedia_administrators_willing_to_handle_RevisionDelete_requests' can be described as tedious at best. There has to be a better way? Thanks in advance, OXYLYPSE (talk) 22:52, 6 November 2024 (UTC)
- Hi OXYLYPSE - you did the right thing. If you're not in a position to raise an admin's attention quietly, you or any other user can make the request through emailing User:Oversight. This is especially important for apparent BLP issues; it's to everyone's benefit to keep that off noticeboards or other public spaces. The Oversight team does review every request that comes in and takes the most appropriate action; often that is revision deletion instead of suppression. Thanks for asking! Risker (talk) 23:38, 6 November 2024 (UTC)
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I mentioned it there, but I just wanted to reiterate here that in the light of day one of my comments at Misplaced Pages talk:Administrator recall/Reworkshop was rude. Sorry about that.
I look forward to (more) politely continuing to share our different perspectives! - RevelationDirect (talk) 16:33, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
- Oh RevelationDirect, just the other day I was accused of kicking dogs. I do not find anything you said to be particularly rude at all. Bottom line, though, I am really impressed that you hold yourself to such a high standard. It's a challenging discussion, for sure, but I think the focus has been on improvement and re-humanizing the process. Risker (talk) 16:43, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
No big deal...
Hi, I haven't edited for almost 2 years, but I've been lurking (just a bit). I came across RECALL and its REWORKSHOP more by accident than design and I was so pleased to see you being active there. It certainly needs your special touch. It inspired me to throw in just two or three minor comments, and though I'm certainly not staging a comeback, I still have a vested interest in both encouraging potential admin candidates to throw their hat in the ring without fear, and even more important to ensure they get a fair deal when they get the bit - or lose it. Warm rgds, Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 07:58, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
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Io Saturnalia!
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Nadolig Llawen
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Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda.
Happy Christmas and Best wishes for a peaceful 2025: "Gabriel's Message" performed by the Winchester Cathedral Choir.
("Birjina gaztetto bat zegoen", Basque folk carol)